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Add "Remove" disk to Virtualize GUI

Add "remove disk" function to the GUI. To remove a disk required using the CLI. In the above ticket, the SV1 phoned home for a drive throwing errors. It was determined the drive needed to be replaced. The SSR went on site and was working with the ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

Vdisk mirror – out of sync condition / reporting

It would be a great improvement to show stale copies immediately in the Event Log, send as an SNMP trap or for example an email notification.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Restore are very slow

Querying of Exchange backups is very slow in a large environments. E.g. in environment with 100+ Exchange mailbox databases and 200 backups per each it take nearly 3 hours. This causes that restores are terribly slow.
almost 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Mail 1 Not under consideration

youtube tv contact number customer services +1(833) 756-4415

YouTube TV is a popular streaming service that allows users to watch live TV and on-demand content. While the platform is known for its seamless user experience, there may be instances where you need to reach out to their customer support team for...
8 months ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Ubuntu 22.04 lin_tape support

More and more applications are running on Ubuntu and we see a larger increase of request to add tape support for multiple applications such IBM Storage Protect, Storage Scale and other running on Ubuntu. But to combine does applications with a tap...
8 months ago in Linear Tape-Open 1 Not under consideration

Spectrum Scale maintenance integration with RHEL "yum"

when patching is performed on RHEL (with yum update), binaries that match the kernel must be available concurrently from an IBM public REPO site.1) Patching of RHEL cannot cause a mismatch of the binaries between RHEL and Scale, 2) compilers canno...
almost 6 years ago in Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS) 5 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum virtulize should generate alert before rebuilding of a failed disk

One of our customer have large infrastructure of IBM Storage deployed ,where IBM FS 840 /FS 900 / SVC / IBM V7000 / IBM FS 9150 / IBM FS 9200 installed across India. Although we have call home configured and working for all devices , fault like di...
over 3 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

V7000 / V3700 / SVC GUI Based Flashcopy Scheduler

Our customers are requesting an enhancement to the V7000 to include a basic scheduler of flashcopies per LUN. EMC and Netapp both offer this compelling feature. Smaller shops do not want to purchase or deal with the complexity of Tivoli Flashcopy ...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 4 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus - Oracle DB support on Windows

Small customers use Windows platform for Oracle DB's and current support is only for Oracle DB running on Linux. SPP in not suitable for them and cases are lost. Veeam has such support.
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

REST style API for administrative purposes

An API towards the TSM server is desirable, in order to be able to automate functions other applications/services - instead of having to build wrappers for the administrative command-line.
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

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